Authors


Joseph R. Sanok, MA, LLP, LPC, NCC

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Making Your Practice Work for You

By releasing old assumptions and brainstorming, it is possible to break the old models of private practice and find new ways to be productive within your practice.


Amresh Shrivastava, MD

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Polypharmacy: A Challenge for Community Psychiatrists

Polypharmacy has been met with challenges because many practicing clinical guidelines and treatment algorithms prefer a monotherapy approach.


Avinash De Sousa, MD

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Polypharmacy: A Challenge for Community Psychiatrists

Polypharmacy has been met with challenges because many practicing clinical guidelines and treatment algorithms prefer a monotherapy approach.


Pragya Lodha, MA

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Polypharmacy: A Challenge for Community Psychiatrists

Polypharmacy has been met with challenges because many practicing clinical guidelines and treatment algorithms prefer a monotherapy approach.


Sergi Ferré, MD, PhD

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Caffeine: Neurobiological and Psychiatric Implications

This CME article discusses the pharmacokinetics of caffeine and its implications on anxiety.


Robert Caudill, MD

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The History and Value of Guidelines for Best Practices of Telemental Health

Telepsychiatry has its origins in the 1950s and has moved from an esoteric curiosity to mainstream practice. However, it has been challenged along the way at many turns.


Heidi C. Collins, MD

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Recognizing and Treating Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in People With Autism

While the core features of autism impair functioning, a significant source of further impairment is comorbid psychiatric disorders.


Matthew S. Siegel, MD

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Recognizing and Treating Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in People With Autism

While the core features of autism impair functioning, a significant source of further impairment is comorbid psychiatric disorders.


Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh, MD, PhD

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4 Stages of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

A 59-year-old man with a history of multiple concussions has been having a series of neurocognitive symptoms for the past several years. Discover more in this case.


Zeina Chemali, MD, MPH

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5 Psychopharmacologic Approaches to Treating Tinnitus

Tinnitus affects 50 million people in the US and can require urgent medical assistance. It can also cause considerable anxiety and even hallucinations. Reducing symptom intensity is key.


Romy Nehme, MD

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5 Psychopharmacologic Approaches to Treating Tinnitus

Tinnitus affects 50 million people in the US and can require urgent medical assistance. It can also cause considerable anxiety and even hallucinations. Reducing symptom intensity is key.


Ryan Vidrine, MD

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Integrating Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Into the OCD Treatment Algorithm

As our understanding of the neurobiology of OCD grows, additional treatment options become available and should be thoughtfully integrated into the treatment algorithm. One such option is dTMS.


Lorin Young, MD, MSc, FRCPC

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Green Spaces

Nature provides both physical and psychological benefits. How does this healing through exposure to nature occur?


Francisco González-Scarano, MD

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HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder After the Start of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy

This CME article provides an understanding of the effects on the CNS that lead to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).


Dennis L. Kolson, MD, PhD

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HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder After the Start of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy

This CME article provides an understanding of the effects on the CNS that lead to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).


John Oakley Beahrs, MD

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Undecidable Choices and the Polarization of Shared Ambivalence: What Can Psychiatry Add to Dispute Resolution?

Reframing is being tested as a potentially viable way to address intractable conflict where sacred values are at issue. In memory of Johan Verhulst, MD.


Hunter Yost, MD

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Cyclothymia, the Quintessential Mood Temperament: Ignored or Forgotten? Part III: Differentiating Cyclothymia and BPD and Treatment Considerations

In Part III of this series, an expert discusses the key differences between cyclothymia and borderline personality disorder, along with treatment considerations for cyclothymia.


Gen Tanaka, MD

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Transgenerational Transmission of Resilience After Catastrophic Trauma

In this CME, learn how to design interventions to promote resilience, study their relative effectiveness, and implement them accordingly.


Hansen Tang

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Transgenerational Transmission of Resilience After Catastrophic Trauma

In this CME, learn how to design interventions to promote resilience, study their relative effectiveness, and implement them accordingly.


Angela S. Guarda, MD

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How We Eat

Treating eating disorders can feel challenging because patients are typically ambivalent about changing their behavior; however, it is also rewarding, as full recovery is possible even in the most chronically and severely ill patients.


Teresa Rufin

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How Anxiety and Habits Contribute to Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe and debilitating illness with one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorder. The illness course is often long, recovery is slow, and the rates of full recovery are low.


Sahib S. Khalsa, MD, PhD

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Interoception in Eating Disorders: A Clinical Primer

More than two-thirds of patients with eating disorders also have comorbid mood and anxiety disorders. This article considers how a transdiagnostic process called interoception may help to advance our understanding and treatment of eating disorders.


Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD

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Closing the Research-Practice Gap in Eating Disorders

Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with high medical and psychiatric comorbidity, poor quality of life, and high mortality, and mortality from anorexia nervosa (AN) is the highest of all mental disorders. Fortunately, there are a number of evidence-based psychological treatment approaches for EDs.


Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks, MD, MRCPsych

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Physician-Assisted Suicide: There Are No Best Practices

Just because something is legal does not make it ethical, in the opinion of this psychiatrist, who turned down an invitation to be a presenter on the topic of PAS.


Arshya Vahabzadeh, MD

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The Augmented Psychiatrist: How Technology Will Transform Mental Health Clinical Practice

Excitement in digital health is growing due to rapid advances in artificial intelligence, data science, and smart devices. How will the growing number of mental health technologies impact clinical practice? Arshya Vahabzadeh, MD provides insights.


Vlad Stroescu, MD

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My Three Lessons as a Psychiatrist in Romania

Those last years of the Communist regime were met with literal darkness, collective trauma, and lack of food and free speech. Yet the peoples’ wicked, clandestine sense of humor cut through the despair and resilience rose from the ashes.


Annie Harper, PhD

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Making Dollars and Sense: Support for Patients With Mental Health Challenges

Recommendations for patients with serious mental illness to manage their finances safely and conveniently, with as much dignity, privacy, and autonomy as possible.


Darold A. Treffert, MD

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Get That Piece of Paper

Dad excelled at his craft and was the natural choice for promotion to supervisor of the machine shop when the incumbent retired. But the company told him it just wouldn’t "look right" to have a person with only an 8th-grade education.


Jerome Sarris, PhD

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Complementary and Alternative Treatments for ADHD: What the Evidence Suggests

Recent surveys suggest that 7% to 8% of children and 4% to 5% of adults meet ADHD criteria. This CME article provide an understanding of the evidence for the use of complementary and alternative (CAM) treatments for ADHD.


James L. Knoll III, MD

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Guidance Along the Path: 20 Meditations for Psychiatry Residents

In the spirit of honoring and guiding trainees, the authors provide advice to today’s psychiatric residents-the psychiatric leaders of tomorrow.

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